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Week 1
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Monday,_April_1
 2:00 pm
 SSR
 All participants
 First Light
 Introductions
Topics for discussion?
Tues April 2
 11:30 am
 Aud
 Bill Jones (by Skype)
 Planck and B mode missions: implications for inflation, robustness, near-future prospects
Wed April 3
 12:30 pm
 Aud
 All
 Informal discussion
Thurs April 4
 2 pm
 Aud
 Daniel Baumann
 Probing high-scale physics with Planck
Week 2
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Apr 8
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Coordinators;
Chris Hirata
 Organizational Meeting;
Comments on the power asymmetry
 All welcome.
Komatsu preprint (pdf])
Tue, Apr 9
 11:30am
 Aud
 Jonathan Braden
 Density Perturbations from Preheating Caustics and the Shock-in-Time
Thurs, April 11
 2 pm
 Aud
 Hiranya Peiris
 Is there evidence for additional neutrino species in cosmology?
 preprint, Cox proof as presented in Jaynes' book
Week 3
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Apr 15
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Easther and Peiris
 Monodromy, Modulated Power Spectra and the CMB.
Tue, Apr 16
 11:30am
 SSR
 Bond et al
 What multifield potentials for the end of inflation are physically motivated?

2pm
 Aud
 Dunkley plus Komatsu
 Hubble constant
Wed, Apr 17
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Mustafa Amin
 Nonlinear field dynamics after inflation
Thurs, Apr 18
 2 pm
 Aud
 Christof Wetterich
 Universe without expansion
Week 4
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Apr 22 -
Fri, Apr 26
MSR
 CONFERENCE
WEEK
 Observations and Theoretical Challenges in Primordial Cosmology
 Schedule
Week 5
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tue, Apr 30
 11:30am
 Aud
 S. Trivedi
 CMB From CFT
 hep-th/1211.5482 (pdf)
Thurs, May 2
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Marilena LoVerde
 Non-Gaussian Mode Coupling and the Statistical Cosmological Principle
 http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3549
Week 6
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues May 7
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Lyman Page

Wed, May 8
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Sudeep Das
 CMB Lensing
Thurs, May 9
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Uros Seljak
 Pedagogical lecture on LSS
Week 7
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues May 14
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Dmitri Pogosyan
 Geometrical measures for (mildly) non-Gaussian cosmological fields
Thurs May 16
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Rafael Porto
 Probing the (quantum) nature of the primordial seed
Week 8
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon May 20
 12:15
 Aud
 E. Silverstein
 blackboard lunch: \pi in the sky: precision observations and theory
Tues May 21
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Lam Hui
 Testing gravity with pulsars, black holes and the microwave background
Thurs May 23
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 D. Harlow
 Eternal inflation, bubble nucleation, and PLANCK
Week 9
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues May 28
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Shirley Ho
 LSS, Planck and cosmology analysis engine
Thurs May 30
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 S. Shandera
 Discussion: Primordial cosmology potential of future LSS surveys
Week 10
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues June 4
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Dragan Huterer
 Constraining dark energy: a pedagogical overview and future prospects
Thurs June 6
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Sergei Dubovsky
 From the QCD flux tubes to the hierarchy problem
 Joint with LHC program
Week 11
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues June 11
 2:00pm
 Aud
 E. Silverstein; All
 de Sitter and inflationary spacetimes: New Solutions and Old Problems (short talk plus discussion)
Wed June 12
 12:30
 SSR
 S. Watson, T. Hertog, T. Wrase, ...
 Short contributions, general discussion
Thurs June 13
 2:00pm
 Aud
 Matias Zaldarriaga
 The effective theory of Large Scale Structure
Week 12
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues June 18
 2:00pm
 Aud
 C-L Kuo, J. Kovac, C. Pryke
 B mode experiment primer
Wed June 19
 12:30
 SSR
 R. Kallosh and A. Linde
 Planck2013 and Superconformal Symmetry>
Thurs June 20
 2:00pm
 Aud
 George Efstathiou

Week 13
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues June 25
 2:00pm
 Aud
 J.R. Bond

Wed June 26-Thurs June 27
 all day
 Aud
 All
 B Fest Day 1 (Wed, 6/26):

9:00-9:45 Matias Zaldarriaga: B-mode and high energy physics - why it is much more than energy scale of inflation
9:45-10:15 George Efstathiou: Planck
10:15-10:45 Olivier Perdereau: Planck Analysis
10:45-11:15 Carlo Baccigalupi: LFI, Analysis
11:30-12:00 John Kovac (BICEP/Keck overview)
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Clem Pryke: BICEP2/Keck Status
2:30-3:00 Chao-Lin Kuo: BICEP3
3:00-3:45 Suzanne Staggs: ABS / ACTpol
3:45-4:30 Adrian Lee: POLARBEAR/ Simons Array
4:30-5:15 Tomotake Matsumura: LiteBird

Day 2 (Thur, 6/27):

9:00-9:30 Leonardo Senatore : What can we learn about inflation from B-modes measurements beyond “r”
9:30-10:00 Dick Bond : Something about r
10:00-10:45 Seth Hillbrand/Shaul Hanany (EBEX)
10:45-11:30 T.B.D. from SPIDER
11:30-12:15 Al Kogut: (PIPER / Pixie )
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 Sarah Church (Snowmass and CMB)
2:45-3:30 Snowmass discussion
3:30-5:00 Space missions: ESA, NASA, JAXA






*Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge
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